The first thing that I see when I play a video is an ad from Abbot. So sick of him. At this point I would rather watch an ad for GLP1’s or chair tai chi.
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They brag about cutting property taxes which is literally just squeezing school districts and forcing every district to issue bonds to afford essentials, making investment bankers the big winners as always.
Everything in Texas is bad or gonna be bad. - guy and his party has been in power forever in Texas. Nothing was ever their fault. And people are still voting for these asshats.
In overall revenue (not just taxes):
Total state-government revenue
$189.2 billion
#3 of 50Total state-government revenue$189.2 billion#3 of 50
K-12: 8th-grade math
NAEP 269
34th
Below average
K-12: 4th-grade reading
NAEP 212
37th
Below average
K-12: 8th-grade reading
NAEP 252
44th
Well below average
Adults with bachelor's+
35.2%
~27th
Slightly below average
Health insurance coverage
83.3% insured
50th
Worst in U.S.
Unemployment
4.5%
38th
Worse than U.S.
Where is your money going Texas? Going to their friends and billionaire buddies to keep milking you. Wake up. Stop voting for these thieves who also want to tell you how to be moral.
I use Firefox on Android and there's no need for an extension to force old.reddit. Just set it in your reddit preferences, and you'll never see new reddit again.
Also on Android you can use Morphe which gives you a super upgraded YouTube with ad blocking and sponsor blocking and other nice features.
Doesn't always work. Often times the ad will still play or it'll be a slightly differently-named ad but it'll run the exact same as the one you blocked. That's how stupid ass TPUSA kept showing up on my screen.
No, watch them and drain his ad spend. Click his call to action button to donate, do everything possible to engage but not donate. This is how you fuck the republicans, engage in their shit.
It also did let us finally choose to stop seeing it. I think it worked and lowkey hope they told him that I said “fuck yeah we are [taking over texas], you asshole”
The one about in income tax is one of the worst lies I’ve ever heard from any campaign. It’s Democrats who passed the income tax ban. The legislation was passed in the 1990s, when both chambers of the legislature were majority D.
They also never mention that a constitutional amendment was passed in 2019 banning an individual income tax. It would take 2/3 of both houses and a popular vote to undo it.
And even that was performative bullshit. A state income tax was already unconstitutional by then. The legislation in the 90s required a constitutional amendment, and the legislation to put it on the ballot was carried by a D in the senate (I know this because I am old enough to remember).
You can block individual ads on the YouTube app, which is what I did after getting tired of that ad since it kept popping up every time on Xbox. Bro your party has been in control of Texas for 30 years and you still complain about how everything sucks.
Bro your party has been in control of Texas for 30 years and you still complain about how everything sucks.
That's the stated reason for why a bunch of my co-workers are planning on voting against him. They're like "At some point you have to stop blaming Democrats and do shit."
It’s either him or Talarico smear ads in front of damn near every gaming video my son watches. Not anywhere near his voting demographic. Or voting age.
I keep getting his ads on the most liberal videos and channels. I even got one during a video by a trans creator talking about JK Rowling's bigotry. I really think he just put "Texas" as the demographic with zero regard to age range or political affiliation.
Either it was some overworked intern who's getting fired or he's scared enough he might not win this one that he's casting the widest net possible. I'm hoping for the later even if it's just because it makes this hellscape a bit easier to face.
Abbott has had YEARS to improve school safety, the state has a $28 Billion surplus, and yet he has done nothing. He will be responsible for the next school shooting
He's getting right on all those changes Texans are looking for to improve our state after *checks notes* having free run of the fucking place for over a decade.
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To be honest the political BS going on in America is just annoying and takes a toll on your mental health. Everyday you see stupid stuff Trump is doing. The event that ticked me off most was when Abbot began gerrymandering Texas which lead to the Gerrymandering of the entire Bible Belt. He started the event that lead to the loss of black African American political representation in the US.
If you wanna live happy and not annoyed you have to be ignorant of politics. But don’t fall in that mindset. Keep on fighting.
You know I have to hand to most MAGA Texans. I would have guessed they would like real men, but that trifecta of Abbott, Paxton, and Cruz…. kind of pathetic
Just let the ad play. If you’re confidently not voting for Ayatollah Abbot of the Yall’Qaeda, then it consumes ad funds that would otherwise potentially serve ads to swing or undecided voters who just vote for what they heard the most.
Depending on the Ad Buy type, You’re either forcing dead ad spend by consuming a number of impressions or spots if it was guaranteed CPM/CPE and knowing you’re never gonna vote for him or you’re directly eating up funds if it’s programmatically filled through Google ads or anything else also knowing you’re never gonna vote for him.
I let the ad play every time all the way through, just muted, to cover Any ad buy type to make sure it’s wasted money.
Some buy types charge the advertiser less for skipped ads so I don’t skip. Some register impressions only after the five/ten second skip timer. Etc
See I'm in the opposite situation, all I get is Talarico's adds, like chill out bro im already gonna vote for you, you dont save to convince me more. That and adds calling talarico a communist or whatever anything that starts with "communism china" registers as white noise to me, its just a list of buzzwords that doesn't actually say anything important...
Is it the one where he espouses transformative policies in front of a dozen sleepy people at a honky tonk? Transformative policies needed after decades of GOP control.
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Youtube Premium was the best subscription i ever made. No ads, listen to my podcasts on there and as of this year have begun migrating my music habits onto there as well. Much more useful for me than netflix hulu etc. Id think of it if i were you. Election season ads are only getting started
Every time it plays I just talk over him and say "go fuck yourself you lying sack of shit" and "fix the fucking power grid asshole" over and over. Makes me feel a little better.
Get a good VPN like Proton VPN, problem solved. I do not know what hulus policy is for connecting thru a VPN. There is always a clear channel available.
My favorite part of his shitty ads are that he managed to miss his marks on the stage, literally. In one shot, it's overhead and you can see very clearly that his chair is not in the tape lines set out for him.
I bought a new phone earlier this year and it came with a free trial of YouTube Premium. After it expired, I immediately subscribed. There's no going back. Not only do you not get any ads, you can skip the ad placement that's a part of the video.
Lol. Turned on You Tube earlier and there was Abbott! Not sure what demographics he's going after but rich white middle age or older people don't watch You Tube!
I will never understand why people don't block ads everywhere they can. Between ad blockers and sailing the high seas I haven't seen a regular advertisement in years in my house.
It's when I use my work computer where we're not allowed to put ad blockers on that blows me away. Its so strange looking at any website and seeing the ads that pop up all over the place that I never see at home.
Gosh, me too. I’m certain I’m not in that demographic, so if it’s algorithm based I’m lost. Did I watch an errant video or something? I try not to search political stuff if I can help it.
You guys are still using raw YouTube? There are plenty of apps out there to watch ut without ads. I'd also report the ad with any reason. I do reporting all the time and I see it less or nothing at all (on my mobile I use raw YouTube because I don't listen it much from there, I'm mainly in firestick).
I’ve been watching Critical Role campaign videos (which are 3-6 hours long), and I swear I get this one every 10-15 minutes. I could probably quote it at this point. So tired of it.
Literally same and it’s pissing me off, because the crap he spews is just some fear mongering BA while he’s literally sat his ass Ik that seat doing nothing useful for so damn long
Several. But it does entail sideloading an adblocking app to the TV and/or using installing a browser that has adblocking. That though requires being paired with $15 bluetooth keyboard.
Either option is fairly straight forward with the sideload of an adblocking app involving a few more steps.
I have no idea, thats part of Abbotts commercial. See it 100x a day. He is a room full of old white folks telling them that dems are scared of his strong policies, lol.
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